Arch Haskell News: Nov 23 2008

A weekly update of Haskell in Arch Linux.

Arch now has 734 Haskell packages in AUR.

That’s an increase of 29 new packages in the last 8 days! Double the normal package rate, and 3.6 new Haskell releases per day.

Noteworthy

• haskell-hledger-0.2: “A ledger-compatible text-based accounting tool.”
• gitit-0.3.1: “Wiki using HAppS, git, and pandoc.”
• lhc-20081121: “Lhc Haskell Compiler”
• haskell-hosc-0.6: “Haskell Open Sound Control”
• haskell-flickr-0.3.2: “Haskell binding to the Flickr API”
• haskell-delicious-0.3.2: “Accessing the del.icio.us APIs from Haskell (v2)”
• haskell-mediawiki 0.2.3: “Interfacing with the MediaWiki API”
• darcs-2.1.2.2: “a distributed, interactive, smart revision control system”

New and updated packages this week

• haskell-monadrandom-0.1.3: “Random-number generation monad.”
• haskell-hledger-0.2: “A ledger-compatible text-based accounting tool.”
• gitit-0.3.1: “Wiki using HAppS, git, and pandoc.”
• hpylos-1.0: “AI of Pylos game with GLUT interface.”
• haskell-flickr-0.3.2: “Haskell binding to the Flickr API”
• haskell-hstringtemplate-0.4.3: “StringTemplate implementation in Haskell.”
• haskell-parserfunction-0.0.1: “Enzo Haussecker’s algorithm for parsing functions.”
• haskell-peano-inf-0.6.2: “Lazy Peano numbers including observable infinity value.”
• haskell-lub-0.0.4: “least upper bounds — information merging”
• haskell-unamb-0.1.3: “Unambiguous choice”
• haskell-tabular-0.1.0.2: “Two-dimensional data tables with rendering functions”
• haskell-infinite-search-0.10: “Exhaustively searchable infinite sets.”
• haskell-haskell-src-exts-0.4.3.1: “Manipulating Haskell source: abstract syntax, lexer, parser, and pretty-printer”
• haskell-missingh-1.0.2.1: “Large utility library”
• haskell-hmeap-0.6: “Haskell Meapsoft Parser”
• haskell-haskeline-0.4: “A command-line interface for user input, written in Haskell.”
• haskell-system-uuid-1.0.1: “Bindings to system UUID functions.”
• lhc-20081121: “Lhc Haskell Compiler”
• haskell-hsc3-unsafe-0.6: “Unsafe Haskell SuperCollider”
• haskell-hosc-0.6: “Haskell Open Sound Control”
• haskell-lazysmallcheck-0.3: “A library for demand-driven testing of Haskell programs”
• haskell-hxt-filter-8.2.0: “A collection of tools for processing XML with Haskell (Filter variant).”
• haskell-tttas-0.2: “Typed Transformations of Typed Abstract Syntax”
• darcs-2.1.2.2: “a distributed, interactive, smart revision control system”
• haskell-funcmp-1.2: “Functional MetaPost”
• haskell-fft-0.1.2: “Bindings to the FFTW library.”
• haskell-carray-0.1.3: “A C-compatible array library.”
• haskell-hsx-0.4.6: “HSX (Haskell Source with XML) allows literal XML syntax to be used in Haskell source code.”
• haskell-storable-complex-0.2: “Storable instance for Complex”
• haskell-arff-0.1.0: “Generate Attribute-Relation File Format (ARFF) files”
• haskell-wavesurfer-0.0.4: “Parse WaveSurfer files”
• haskell-freesound-0.0.2: “Access the Freesound Project database”
• haskell-memotrie-0.4.1: “Trie-based memo functions”
• haskell-sha-1.0.1: “Implementations of the SHA suite of message digest functions”
• haskell-hmpfr-0.1.3: “Haskell binding to MPFR library”
• haskell-eeconfig-1.0: “ExtremlyEasyConfig – Extremly Simple parser for config files”
• cheatsheet-1.5: “A Haskell cheat sheet in PDF and literate formats.”
• haskell-delicious-0.3.2: “Accessing the del.icio.us APIs from Haskell (v2)”
• haskell-pugs-compat-0.0.6: “Portable Haskell/POSIX layer for Pugs”
• haskell-stringtable-atom-0.0.6: “Memoize Strings as Atoms for fast comparison and sorting, with maps and sets”
• haskell-unix-2.3.1.0: “POSIX functionality”
• haskell-template-haskell-2.3.0.0: “”
• haskell-random-1.0.0.1: “random number library”
• haskell-pretty-1.0.1.0: “Pretty-printing library”
• haskell-packedstring-0.1.0.1: “(Deprecated) Packed Strings.”
• haskell-old-locale-1.0.0.1: “locale library”
• haskell-hpc-0.5.0.2: “Code Coverage Library for Haskell”
• haskell-filepath-1.1.0.1: “Library for manipulating FilePath’s in a cross platform way.”
• haskell-containers-0.2.0.0: “Assorted concrete container types”
• haskell-array-0.2.0.0: “Mutable and immutable arrays”
• haskell-extensible-exceptions-0.1.1.0: “Extensible exceptions”
• haskell-zipfold-0.1: “Zipping folds”
• ztail-1.0: “Multi-file, colored, filtered log tailer.”
• haskell-reactive-0.9.1: “Simple foundation for functional reactive programming”
• haskell-typecompose-0.6.0: “Type composition classes & instances”
• haskell-rmonad-0.3: “Restricted monad library”

LHC: Lemmih’s Haskell Compiler

Arch now has another Haskell compiler!

LHC is a new Haskell compiler which aims to produce the most efficient programs possible via whole program analysis and other optimizations.It is a fork of JHC, to support the cabal build system, which lets us automatically package it for distros like Arch.

Darcs now auto-packaged for Arch

Since darcs, the world’s smartest revision control system, has become cabalised, and released via http://hackage.haskell.org, we’re now able to generate native packages from it automatically, using cabal2arch. This eases the maintaince burden dramatically, and should ensure continued up-to-date darcs packages for Arch.

The auto-packaged package is here.

Enjoy the revision control!

Arch Haskell News: Nov 15 2008

A weekly update of Haskell in Arch Linux.

Arch now has 705 Haskell packages in AUR.

That’s an increase of (again) 33 new packages in the last 14 days. Growth appears to be holding steady at just over 2 new packages a day on Hackage in the first part of November.

Noteworthy

• haskell-icalendar-0.0: “Parser for iCalendar format (RFC2445)”
• haskell-hmatrix-0.5.0.1: “Linear algebra and numerical computations”
• haskell-flickr-0.2.2: “Haskell binding to the Flickr API”
• gitit-0.2.2.1: “Wiki using HAppS, git, and pandoc.”
• haskell-happs-server-0.9.3: “Web related tools and services.”
• haddock-2.4.1: “A documentation-generation tool for Haskell libraries”

New and updated packages this week

• tiger-1.0: “Tiger Compiler of Universiteit Utrecht”
• haskell-ghc-syb-0.1: “SYB instances for the GHC API”
• haskell-icalendar-0.0: “Parser for iCalendar format (RFC2445)”
• haskell-hmatrix-0.5.0.1: “Linear algebra and numerical computations”
• haskell-zipfold-0.0: “Zipping folds”
• haskell-haskell-src-exts-0.4.1: “Manipulating Haskell source: abstract syntax, lexer, parser, and pretty-printer”
• haskell-peano-inf-0.5: “Lazy Peano numbers including observable infinity value.”
• haskell-colour-2.0.0: “A model for human colour/color perception”
• haskell-hcheat-2008.11.14: “A collection of code cheatsheet”
• haskell-xosd-0.1.1: “A binding to the X on-screen display”
• haskell-flickr-0.2.2: “Haskell binding to the Flickr API”
• haskell-classify-2008.11.13: “Library for classification of media files.”
• gitit-0.2.2.1: “Wiki using HAppS, git, and pandoc.”
• haskell-haskell-src-exts-0.3.11: “Manipulating Haskell source: abstract syntax, lexer, parser, and pretty-printer”
• haskell-hpapi-0.0.1.0: “Binding for the PAPI library”
• haskell-yjtools-0.9: “some tools for Monad, List, Tuple and so on.”
• haskell-delimited-text-0.0.1: “Parse character delimited textual data”
• haskell-process-1.0.1.1: “Process libraries”
• haskell-peano-inf-0.3: “Lazy Peano numbers including observable infinity value.”
• haskell-multisetrewrite-0.1.1: “Multi-set rewrite rules with guards and a parallel execution scheme”
• haskell-language-c-0.3.1: “Analysis and generation of C code”
• haskell-pugs-compat-0.0.5: “Portable Haskell/POSIX layer for Pugs”
• haskell-pugs-drift-2.2.3.0: “DrIFT with pugs-specific rules.”
• haskell-hssyck-0.44: “Fast, lightweight YAML loader and dumper”
• haskell-mucipher-0.5.0: “A library to produce simple ciphers for use with lambdabot.”
• haskell-haskell-src-exts-0.3.10: “Manipulating Haskell source: abstract syntax, lexer, parser, and pretty-printer”
• haskell-monadrandom-0.1.2: “Random-number generation monad.”
• haskell-uri-template-0.2: “URI template library for Haskell”
• haskell-peano-inf-0.1: “Lazy Peano numbers including observable infinity value.”
• haskell-metaobject-0.0.5: “A meta-object system for Haskell based on Perl 6”
• haskell-stringtable-atom-0.0.5: “Memoize Strings as Atoms for fast comparison and sorting, with maps and sets”
• haskell-reactive-fieldtrip-0.0.3: “Connect Reactive and FieldTrip”
• haskell-feed-0.3.5: “Interfacing with RSS (v 0.9x, 2.x, 1.0) + Atom feeds.”
• haskell-fieldtrip-0.2.2: “Functional 3D”
• haskell-debugtracehelpers-0.12: “Convenience functions and instances for Debug.Trace”
• haskell-workflow-0.1: “library for transparent execution of computations across shutdowns and restarts”
• haskell-utf8-prelude-0.1.6: “Variants of Prelude and System.IO with UTF8 text I/O operations”
• haskell-debugtracehelpers-0.10: “Convenience functions and instances for Debug.Trace”
• haskell-phonetic-code-0.1: “Phonetic codes: Soundex and Phonix”
• haskell-carray-0.1.2: “A C-compatible array library.”
• haskell-hake-0.9.5: “make tool. ruby : rake = haskell : hake”
• ehaskell-0.5: “like eruby, ehaskell is embedded haskell.”
• haskell-reactive-fieldtrip-0.0.2: “Connect Reactive and FieldTrip”
• haskell-cgi-3001.1.7.0: “A library for writing CGI programs”
• haskell-reactive-glut-0.0.4: “Connects Reactive and GLUT”
• haskell-fieldtrip-0.2.1: “Functional 3D”
• haskell-reactive-0.8.8: “Simple foundation for functional reactive programming”
• haskell-unamb-0.0.1: “Unambiguous choice”
• haskell-vector-space-0.5: “Vector & affine spaces, linear maps, and derivatives (requires ghc 6.9)”
• haskell-bytestring-0.9.1.4: “Fast, packed, strict and lazy byte arrays with a list interface”
• haskell-binary-0.4.4: “Binary serialisation for Haskell values using lazy ByteStrings”
• haskell-mime-0.3.0: “Working with MIME types.”
• haskell-tcache-0.5.4: “A Transactional data cache with configurable persistence”
• haskell-compact-map-2008.11.9: “Compact Data.Map implementation using Data.Binary”
• haskell-happs-server-0.9.3: “Web related tools and services.”
• haskell-happs-ixset-0.9.3:
• haskell-happs-state-0.9.3: “Event-based distributed state.”
• haskell-happs-util-0.9.3: “Web framework”
• haskell-hcheat-2008.11.6: “A collection of code cheatsheet”
• haskell-mps-2008.11.6: “message passing style helpers”
• haskell-stream-fusion-0.1.2.1: “Faster Haskell lists using stream fusion”
• haskell-stb-image-0.1.2: “A wrapper around Sean Barrett’s JPEG/PNG decoder”
• haskell-compact-map-2008.11.8: “Compact Data.Map implementation using Data.Binary”
• haskell-hsc3-dot-0.5: “haskell supercollider graph drawing”
• haskell-hsc3-unsafe-0.5: “Unsafe Haskell SuperCollider”
• haskell-hsc3-0.5: “Haskell SuperCollider”
• haskell-hosc-0.5: “Haskell Open Sound Control”
• haskell-pandoc-1.1: “Conversion between markup formats”
• ehaskell-0.4: “like eruby, ehaskell is embedded haskell.”
• haddock-2.4.1: “A documentation-generation tool for Haskell libraries”
• haskell-vec-0.9.4: “Fixed-length lists and low-dimensional linear algebra.”
• haskell-utf8-string-0.3.3: “Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings”
• ehaskell-0.3: “like eruby, ehaskell is embedded haskell.”
• haskell-yjtools-0.8: “some tools for Monad, List, Tuple and so on.”
• haskell-caldims-0.1.0: “Calculation tool and library supporting units”
• haskell-curl-1.3.3: “Haskell binding to libcurl”
• haskell-parallel-1.1.0.0: “parallel programming library”
• haskell-syb-0.1.0.0: “Scrap Your Boilerplate”
• haskell-hake-0.9: “make tool. ruby : rake = haskell : hake”
• haskell-arrows-0.4.1: “Arrow classes and transformers”
• haskell-yjtools-0.7: “some tools for Monad, List, Tuple and so on.”
• haskell-openglcheck-1.0: “Quickcheck instances for various data structures.”
• haskell-utf8-prelude-0.1.4: “Variants of Prelude and System.IO using UTF8 text I/O operations and an UTF8 testing tool”
• haskell-infixapplicative-1.0: “liftA2 for infix operators.”
• haskell-utf8-string-0.3.2: “Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings”
• htags-1.0.1: “A Haskell98 parsing tags program similar to ctags.”
• haskell-fgl-5.4.2.2: “Martin Erwig’s Functional Graph Library”
• haskell-refserialize-0.2.3: “Write to and read from Strings maintaining internal memory references”

700 Haskell packages

Arch Linux now has 700 Haskell libraries and tools natively packaged! That equates to 81% of Hackage.

Enjoy the native lambdas!

Haskell releases growing

Releases to hackage per day since its launch in January 2007

The arch-haskell team is trying to track releases of working code from http://hackage.haskell.org, with the goal to always provide a comprehensive Haskell development environment for the distro (we’re doing ok, 680 packages out of the 850 packages on hackage currently.

Recently its been getting a bit hectic, as hackage has appeared to go into overtime. To work out what was happening, I wrote a little program using the gnuplot bindings to graph each days uploads since Hackage went live.

We see a spike of Haskell releases around the original release, a spike a bit over a year ago when ghc 6.8.x came out (and everything broke :) and a broader surge in releases over the last 200 days..

I think that means something good is happening. Perhaps cabal-install is finally making its way to the masses?

pugs 6.2.13.12 now available for Arch Linux, with ghc 6.10 support

A new release of pugs, the world’s first Perl 6 implementation, has occured, and the Arch Linux packages for Pugs have been updated to build with both ghc 6.8.x and ghc 6.10 (now in the [testing] repository).

$ pugs
   ______
 /   __ 
    /  __  __  ______  ______     (P)erl 6
      __// / /  __ /  ___    (U)ser's
      /   _   /  ___     (G)olfing
     __   ____/ ____ /_____  (S)ystem
     /__/   /___/  /___/ /____/
                       /____/            Version: 6.2.13.11
                       /___/    Copyright 2005-2008, The Pugs Contributors
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 Web: http://pugscode.org/           Email: perl6-compiler@perl.org 

Welcome to Pugs -- Perl6 User's Golfing System
Type :h for help.

Loading Prelude... done.
pugs> 1 + 2
3

The main changes required were to the haskell-pugs-compat, haskell-pugs-drift 2.2.3.0-2 and haskell-hssyck 0.44-2 packages to add “–constraint=’base<4′” to ensure they built with the correct base version.

Enjoy the distro packages for your favorite Haskell applications.

gitit now supported in Arch Linux

gitit is a new kind of wiki, by John MacFarlane, based on git + pandoc + happs, and written in Haskell. The entire wiki may be edited either online, or offline via git.

The complete gitit system is now packaged for Arch, thanks to full HAppS support, and you can get it here. Hopefully we’ll see yet more HAppS-based web apps to follow, now they’re easy to distribute.

Arch Haskell News: Nov 02 2008

A weekly update of Haskell in Arch Linux.

Arch now has 672 Haskell packages in AUR.

That’s an increase of 33 new packages in the last 14 days. Growth appears to be holding steady at just over 2 new packages a day on Hackage in October.

Noteworthy

• haskell-tcache-0.5.3: “A Transactional data cache with configurable persistence”
• haskell-yampa-0.9.2.3: “Library for programming hybrid systems.”
• haskell-network-bytestring-0.1.1.3: “Fast and memory efficient low-level networking”
• haskell-checkers-0.1.1: “Check properties on standard classes and data structures.”
• haskell-coreerlang-0.0.1: “Facilities for manipulating Core Erlang source code: an abstract syntax, parser and pretty-printer.”

New and updated packages this week

• haskell-regexpr-0.3.4: “regular expression like Perl/Ruby in Haskell”
• haskell-tcache-0.5.3: “A Transactional data cache with configurable persistence”
• haskell-hake-0.8: “make tool. ruby : rake = haskell : hake”
• haskell-yjtools-0.6: “some tools for Monad, List, Tuple and so on.”
• haskell-mtlparse-0.0.1: “parse library use mtl package”
• haskell-hunit-1.2.0.3: “A unit testing framework for Haskell”
• haskell-stm-2.1.1.2: “Software Transactional Memory”
• haskell-network-2.2.0.1: “Networking-related facilities”
• haskell-yampa-0.9.2.3: “Library for programming hybrid systems.”
• haskell-bzlib-0.5.0.0: “Compression and decompression in the bzip2 format”
• haskell-zlib-0.5.0.0: “Compression and decompression in the gzip and zlib formats”
• haskell-combinat-0.1: “Generation of various combinatorial objects.”
• haskell-hssqlite3-0.0.5.20081031: “sqlite3 bindings”
• haskell-reactive-glut-0.0.3: “Connects Reactive and GLUT”
• haskell-reactive-0.8.6: “Simple foundation for functional reactive programming”
• haskell-graphicsformats-0.1: “Classes for renderable objects.”
• haskell-multirec-0.1: “Generic programming with systems of recursive datatypes”
• haskell-network-bytestring-0.1.1.3: “Fast and memory efficient low-level networking”
• haskell-tabular-0.1.0.1: “Two-dimensional data tables with rendering functions”
• haskell-checkers-0.1.1: “Check properties on standard classes and data structures.”
• haskell-yjtools-0.4: “some tools for Monad”
• haskell-typecompose-0.5.1: “Type composition classes & instances”
• haskell-unamb-0.0: “Unambiguous choice”
• haskell-checkers-0.1: “Check properties on standard classes and data structures.”
• haskell-c-io-0.1.0: “C IO.”
• haskell-hode-2008.10.27: “Binding to libODE”
• haskell-sqlite-0.4.2: “Haskell binding to sqlite3”
• cheatsheet-1.4: “A Haskell cheat sheet in PDF and literate formats.”
• haskell-hake-0.3: “ruby : rake = haskell : hake”
• haskell-feed-0.3.4: “Interfacing with RSS (v 0.9x, 2.x, 1.0) + Atom feeds.”
• haskell-external-sort-0.2: “Sort large arrays on your hard drive. Kind of like the unix util sort.”
• haskell-fgl-5.4.2.0: “Martin Erwig’s Functional Graph Library”
• haskell-hake-0.2: “ruby : rake = haskell : hake”
• haskell-edisoncore-1.2.1.3: “A library of efficent, purely-functional data structures (Core Implementations)”
• haskell-rewriting-0.1: “Generic rewriting library for regular datatypes.”
• haskell-queue-0.1.1.2: “Abstraction typeclasses for queue-like things.”
• haskell-reord-0.0.0.2: “Ad-hoc Ord instances”
• haskell-stateref-0.2.1.1: “Abstraction for things that work like IORef.”
• haskell-colour-0.0.0: “A colour model for human vision”
• haskell-vector-space-0.4.1: “Vector & affine spaces, linear maps, and derivatives (requires ghc 6.9)”
• haskell-data-quotientref-0.1: “Reference cells that need two independent indices to be accessed.”
• haskell-data-ivar-0.30: “Write-once variables with concurrency support”
• haskell-editline-0.2.1.0: “Bindings to the editline library (libedit).”
• haskell-zip-archive-0.1.1.1: “Library for creating and modifying zip archives.”
• haskell-classify-2008.10.19: “Library for classification of media files.”

For more information about Haskell on Arch Linux, see the wiki page, or join us online, on IRC, #arch-haskell @ freenode.